Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Upstract
Digg 1.0 meets the mother of news aggregators
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Upstract launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.
Jun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com · its alternatives →
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I saw this [0] pretty cool thread by user revskill, and wanted a quicker way to search through it, but also to keep them all in one place so I can read them at my leisure whenever I get time. Right now is like 60 lines of Ruby using Nokogiri, but I will certainly look into it further down the line and improve the list. There's a cronjob checking the thread every 12 hours but I will eventually shut that down and it will become static after that. There are some really awesome blogs in there. I really recommend going through the list, it made my day. [0] "Could you share your personal blog…
2023 · dm.hn · its alternatives →
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Discover the best of the web, right in Slack
2016 · digg.com · its alternatives →
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GitNews▲296Trending repositories from GitHub, HackerNews & Reddit
2018 · gitnews.learn.uno · its alternatives →
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The use of the em dash (—) now raises suspicions that a text might have been AI-generated. Inspired by a suggestion from dang [1], I created a leaderboard of HN users according to how many of their posts before November 30, 2022—that is, before the release of ChatGPT—contained em dashes. Dang himself comes in number 2—by a very slim margin. Credit to Claude Code for showing me how to search the HN database through Google BigQuery and for writing the HTML for the leaderboard. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053933
2025 · gally.net · its alternatives →
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GitNews Web▲265Trending repositories from GitHub, HackerNews & Reddit
2019 · git.news · its alternatives →
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2012 · rewindhn.com · its alternatives →
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MetaVS▲104Cryptocurrency news and content aggregator
2017 · metavs999-hacwz.wpcomstaging.com · its alternatives →
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Hi folks, I've built an alternative Hacker News front page. It is inspired by and meant to be a replacement for hckrnews.com. I built this because HN is woefully underfeatured, but most sites that try to improve it seem to assume that the visual design is the problem. hcker.news tries to maintain HN's familiarity while adding useful enhancements. There are three primary views: - Timeline View: Browse top stories by votes or comments grouped by day, week, or month (e.g., top 20 per day, top 100 per week). - Aggregate View: See top stories by votes or comments over custom time ranges. - Front…
2025 · hcker.news · its alternatives →
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An honest to god, non-algorithmic reverse chrono list of tech news that passes my signal-to-noise tests, updated hourly. A lightweight a page design as I've been able to keep; simple, clean, fast. No commercial features or aspirations - this is a passion project, something I've been fooling around with on and off for decades. There's a "Top" view too with an LLM edited front page & summary, and categorized views for a large number of topics - see the Directory. A few more buried features to explore, but the fundamental use case is pop in, scan, exit - fast and concise. Your feedback would be…
Oct 2025 · deadstack.net · its alternatives →
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Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.
Jun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · its alternatives →
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NewsDiffs▲66Tracks edits to stories over time on major news sites.
2014 · newsdiffs.org · its alternatives →
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Dead Simple News▲107Life is complicated, your news shouldn't be
2023 · deadsimplenews.com · its alternatives →
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Hi yall! I've been using hacker news for a while but one of the things I started wanting recently was the ability to have alerts for any stories I post. The thing that pushed me over the edge was Hackclub's shipwrecked https://shipwrecked.hackclub.com/ (hackathon in the boston bay for anyone that can make 4 projects over the summer and get at least one of them to go viral). One of the options for "going viral" was to get to the front page of hacker news but I was constantly scared that I would miss it getting on there lol so I whipped up a quick slackbot to send alerts to a…
2025 · hn.dunkirk.sh · its alternatives →
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